beauty standards

I’m sorry that we live in the kind of world where appearance is what we are judged on above all other merit. To some degree everyone is judged in this manner, but no one is judged quite as harshly as women over a “certain” age. A threshold that seems to creep younger and younger each year.

We, the viewing and critical public have the luxury of watching your face in a darkened movie theater. We who are not held to the standard that you are. We (NY Post author…I’m looking at you) who have not the fame and fortune that you have and we (still looking at you Post) who are, perhaps, jealous of those things.

I’m sure that as an actress with your great stature and respect in the nerd community alone (we will follow where you lead, General) you probably have access to the best resources in weight loss and boutique fitness and sure, as the Post author has suggested, even the best drugs out there for the Hollywood elite. Having read about you for years and years, I find it shockingappalling UNACCEPTABLE for anyone to suggest to you the things that have been suggested!

I look forward to a future where women are not judged by how good they look in a gold bikini, but rather on their merit as a genuine human being! But hey, I’m a hopeless optimist like that.

Thank you for returning to the big screen! Thank you for fulfilling the dreams of women everywhere to see more of the one and only Princess Leia, now General Leia. It was every bit as epic as I dreamed! And I hope to look half as good as you do at the age of…38! 😉

Photo courtesy of StarWars.com

The Force is with you!!! So very with you!

With love,

a fangirl

** To anyone who doesn’t know what NY Post article I’m referring to, you can go Google it. Because I refuse to link it in this blog post!